Iain Dale has a new “coming soon” banner at the top of his blog. For the last few days it has trailed an article entitled “Have you sighted the lesser spotted Chipmunk?” - Iain’s pet name for Hazel Blears MP.
Well, I haven’t seen Hazel recently, but thanks to the wonders of Facebook I can warn local residents in the Claremont area that she will be making a rare appearance - along with their candidate Peter Wheeler and a posse of imported Labour Students from out of the City - on Saturday April 19th from approximately 11am. Watch out Claremont!
Conservatives Field More Candidates
An encouraging post on ConservativeHome - there will be more Conservative candidates than Labour or Liberal Democrat candidates in the elections on 1st May. This is a real boost and makes a mockery of the line peddled by Labour and the Liberal Democrats about Conservative strength in the north - a huge chunk of the elections this year are in the Metropolitan Boroughs and Wales, and comparatively few in rural district councils.
It is very telling that in most of our areas of electoral weakness, we as Conservatives still give the electorate the opportunity to vote for us. There are one or two areas where we are not quite there, but our candidate base is increasing year on year. By contrast, in their weakest areas, Labour and the Liberal Democrats can’t even be bothered to put candidates up. Only the Conservatives are a truly national party at these local elections and indeed at previous local elections.
Here in Salford we are running a full slate of candidates for the third successive year. You can view a full list of Salford Conservative candidates here. We have an excellent set of candidates representing all strands of Salfordians. They will make excellent Councillors and I hope that local residents will support them on polling day.